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Ladies and Gentlemen, I would
like to invite you to our recital.

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A recital of old, tired,
grey-haired rappers...

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...from Molesta Evenement.

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Let's go back
in time to Ursynów...

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...in '96.

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A couple of kids

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sitting around on benches.
In hoodies

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That's how it all began.

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I remember one day
I was standing at a bus stop

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and a policeman came up to me and asked
"What are you doing here?"

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And I said:

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"I'm waiting for a bus, idiot"

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This is my latest single.

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I recorded it yesterday.

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<i>I knew it would be like this</i>

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<i>when I heard hip-hop for the first time.
I wanted to be an MC.</i>

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<i>I wrote, listened, listened and wrote</i>

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<i>I did my thing and didn't imitate</i>

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<i>but there are things I didn't expect</i>

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<i>That our songs
would shake things up so much</i>

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<i>That people are still asking
about our album</i>

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<i>They wanted it, they finally have it.</i>

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<i>How they judge it is up to them</i>

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<i>I'm just doing my part.</i>

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<i>Vienio also believes that.</i>

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<i>Yo, yo, don't shut the door today mom</i>

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<i>Cause I'm gonna be out late
with the boys</i>

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<i>Back home in a while
and quickly to the subway</i>

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<i>Pissed off because I was
waiting at the post office</i>

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<i>The bell's ringing at Krępol's
house but there's no one downstairs</i>

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<i>The crew's gonna meet at school
at 8 o'clock</i>

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<i>We've been in the same shit
for several years</i>

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<i>What are you drinking?
Yo!</i>

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A FILM BY BARTOSZ PADUCH

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This band doesn't exist anymore.

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I don't think about the past at all.

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For me it's an illusion,
it doesn't exist.

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It's gone, bye bye,
you can only look forward.

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You can't ever go back to it.

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SCANDAL

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<i>Molesta '95/'96</i>

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<i>Finally it's our turn.</i>

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<i>'97, we're here, it's our album.</i>

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<i>They always ask us who we really are.</i>

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<i>Do you wanna know?</i>

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<i>We're just pissed off kids.</i>

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<i>And that's how it's gonna be.</i>

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<i>This is for the real people,
we're not looking for listeners.</i>

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<i>Do you understand that kid?
These are true words.</i>

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<i>Remember this.</i>

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Wouldn't you want to play
a show with them here someday?

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No, I would prefer to play solo,
you know.

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Something's coming.

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It's number 6.

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Molesta used to travel around
by this kind of bus.

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I used to live around here.

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Włodi took the “6”
to get here to Ursynów

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or I would go to Służewiec to school.

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Because we grew up in the 1980s,

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when collecting cans
or cigarette packs was something important,

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it really messed us up.

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We were fucking wrecked by that system.

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We were excited about all the new colourful
things appearing in stores, you know.

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In '95-'96 they laid telephone lines
in Ursynów so finally everyone had a phone.

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And I remember that my mother told me

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"We've been waiting for 12 years”.

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But then, over the course of 2 to 3 years,
huge numbers of billboards appeared.

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A free market,
new things appearing every day.

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People started earning money quickly.

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The currency changed then.

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People would talk about
that for the next few years.

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1 million new zlotys,

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1 million old zlotys.

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I used to get off
here at the bus stop to school.

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On the other side,
we crossed the street

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and our school, number 191, was there.

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Vienio and I attended the same school,

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we used to pass each other
in the hallway.

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He was a punk.

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He had a fucking chain around
his neck and a padlock and mohawk.

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Now that's an awesome freak.

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Włodi was a grindcore fan
at that time, a grade higher than me.

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My favourite band was Napalm Death.
The album "Scum".

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It was such a milestone for me in music.

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More melodic, hardcore
bands like Agnostic Front, DRI.

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Well, at school I was like that,

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he was like that
and his friend was like that.

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We were three freaks
and the rest were all normal kids.

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Sneakers, hair full of gel,
everything sleek.

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Normal people basically!

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We were the opposition
in terms of style, a subculture.

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Earlier, I had my band.

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Włodi had his own grindcore band.

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We listened to similar music.

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We both wanted to make music.

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It came out naturally
that we did it together.

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From grindcore and punk rock
to skateboarding.

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This is how I met Włodi,
we used to skate together.

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- On a board.
AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE, '95

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As you can see,
everything has been destroyed

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and covered with concrete boxes,

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there are stoppers
so that no one can jump.

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This was the centre
of Warsaw for me in '95.

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You would start skateboarding,

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here you could jump...

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And there were some
small competitions organised,

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usually there were about 30 people here.

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There was a skateboarding
video series called 411,

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it showcased skateboarders doing tricks.

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At the beginning it

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was punk rock and hardcore bands.

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But hip-hop began to take over.
More and more skaters would listen to it.

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Hence our interest.

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Damn, this is something new, man.

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New rhythms, you know, we couldn't
afford drums, guitars, all that...

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to play, have rehearsals, it cost a lot!

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And suddenly hip-hop appeared like
a light in the tunnel - Allelujah! Tadaaaaa!

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I remember there was a show called
"Yo! MTV Raps" on Sunday at twelve.

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We would all meet, the whole group,

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and write down
the names of songs that appeared.

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Everything on the show was awesome!

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Throughout the '90s I was a journalist.

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In my free time
I was hosting a radio show

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JOURNALIST / CULTURAL PROMOTER
- which was broadcast by Radio Kolor

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and it was called “Colour Shock”.

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<i>Let me be blunt, it's a blunt game,
Warsaw is not shallow,</i>

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<i>you are thin as a thread,
don't fuck around,</i>

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<i>The Warsaw rhyming style.</i>

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<i>Let me be blunt, it's a blunt game,
Warsaw is not shallow,</i>

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<i>you are thin as a thread</i>

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The '90s were a time when everyone
was excited about having a choice.

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The choice was obviously very illusory

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because of various limitations
like the economic situation.

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Workplaces were being shut down,
many people lost their jobs overnight.

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It strongly affected the reality in which
this young generation was growing up.

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They were children of people who
were professionally active at that time

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and it was this generation that
became interested in hip-hop.

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{\an8}THE YARD AT HOŻA STREET
ŚRÓDMIEŚCIE POŁUDNIOWE

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{\an8}What do you want from us?
Are we harming anyone?!

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{\an8}If there is a complaint
then we need to check.

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Let's fight and we'll see who
you really are, fucking prick.

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Damn motherfucker.

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And that was really interesting,
how this would be adapted to Poland.

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<i>Hey yo Lech Walesa, what have you done?
You made our life so difficult</i>

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<i>Capitalism is a system that
rips out your guts if you're poor.</i>

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We had just finished skateboarding, we were
sweaty, we brought our boards to the show.

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{\an8} 30 APRIL '95
- This hip-hop music starts to play,

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{\an8}it was the Ya-Pa 3 concert
at Remont.

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And we're standing there
like idiots...

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these guys weren't from Warsaw,
you know, they were already touring here,

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they had their audience, and we are
standing with skateboards like idiots.

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The first time we heard it,
I knew that this was something we could do.

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We went home.
We decided to pull up our sleeves.

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I wanted beats. But we didn't have any.
So what did we do? We started looking for them.

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Kaczy's brother had a sampler –
a tiny cube in which

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you could loop four bars
of drums and a sample.

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Ok, leave it alone.

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I used to go to Ursynów to see the guys.

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With the help of my brother Konrad

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we started making
samples there, he helped us with it.

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And we started writing rhymes.
We started rapping.

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When I hear a great band playing,
not only do I admire them,

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but I also want to be like them!

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That's it.

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<i>'96 Molesta,</i>

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<i>So late, eh, you know so little,</i>

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<i>You'll never understand the whole world,</i>

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<i>You have to choose your path,
abandon it and then come back,</i>

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<i>Develop yourself, take this chance,</i>

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<i>Feel that you're really alive.</i>

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'96/'97 was the main meeting
place here, the centre of the universe.

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Everyone came,
DJ Volt's parties were held here.

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I remember the time
when we debuted here.

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We would go in and wait with Włodi
until the party got started.

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We hid in that place,
where Volt kept the records.

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We were so embarrassed,
we didn't know how it would be received.

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We started rapping
our first song over there.

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<i>Mistic Molesta</i>

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<i>Mistic Molesta</i>

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<i>Unfortunately only one half
Because I smoked a ton today</i>

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<i>And I've got a very heavy head today</i>

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<i>I don't know
what to do in a country like this</i>

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<i>Where money and weed is like oxygen.</i>

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<i>And a great life can only be a dream</i>

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<i>I don't set the dogs on anyone, I rhyme
Molesta is producing new material</i>

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<i>Maybe someone will test it
because I feel good after</i>

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<i>A strong dose of THC</i>

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<i>It doesn't bother me
even though I have asthma.</i>

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<i>And I start every day with a joint
I'm not like that dirty bum</i>

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<i>Who extorts money from people
on the street,</i>

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<i>For a fix he would give you a blowjob</i>

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<i>He feels no shame, he wears a mask
So control yourself man.</i>

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All in all, we were shocked
and pale when we left.

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But people were like

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"This is your first track? Awesome man!"

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I think this was the first sign that it
could be done. It could be done in Polish.

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The possibilities in Polish hip-hop
at the beginning were very modest.

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It wasn't until those who were forming this
hip-hop scene also took over the mixers.

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Not at parties,
but by writing these songs.

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They could finally create a new sound.

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Damn...

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Awesome, I had no idea that
there would be so many cool things.

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You hosted a radio show and
had 40 hip-hop albums. I had 30.

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No, I had 10 and you had 20.

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Ok. I decided to bring my 20
so that we could have 30 together,

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so that there
would be more songs to play.

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That's how we met.

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You know,
that was the absolute beginning,

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I had no concept
of how to become a musician.

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I wanted to produce music

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because I wanted to listen
to some things that were in my head.

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<i>Now Volt is presenting
Now Volt is presenting</i>

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<i>V.O.L.T.</i>

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<i>Now Volt is presenting</i>

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<i>V.O.L.T.</i>

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<i>Now Volt is presenting</i>

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<i>V.O.L.T.</i>

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<i>Now Volt is presenting</i>

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<i>V.O.L.T.</i>

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I met them for the first time at parties
at which I used to play in Club Hybrydy.

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I played music and they would
pick up the mics and start rapping.

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Vienio and Włodi - two "high aces".

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THE YARD AT HOŻA STREET, '95-'96

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<i>One for Molesta and one for Klima</i>

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<i>what's happening in Warsaw</i>

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<i>Here's how it is!</i>

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<i>The fucking police fucks
with everyone! With us!</i>

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<i>And what do you get
from that, fucking cop?!</i>

231
00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:06,560
<i>Fuck off from the skateboarders
focus on the guys in plastic bags!</i>

232
00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,560
<i>- So piss off loser!
- Fucking shorty! Yeah!</i>

233
00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,920
<i>Fuck off from
Śródmieście, from everyone!</i>

234
00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,240
<i>And now me! I am from Ursynów</i>

235
00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:17,240
<i>shout out to everyone.
Shout out to Downtown</i>

236
00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,400
<i>shout out to Grochów
shout out to everyone.</i>

237
00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:26,120
<i>I'm not snorting, fuck amphetamine
fuck cocaine, fuck everyone</i>

238
00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,280
<i>I finished kindergarten
and I finished school</i>

239
00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,200
<i>and now I'm free! Amazing days!
Check us out! Cheers Volt</i>

240
00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,320
<i>shoutout to everyone, a great revolt.</i>

241
00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,840
They simply had the same style

242
00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,440
because they spent time together
and influenced each other.

243
00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:39,760
They stuck together.

244
00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,120
They lived in the same place,
in the same neighbourhood.

245
00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,840
Volt organised this “fan club”

246
00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,480
so you could come and meet
hip-hop fans from all over Warsaw.

247
00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:53,080
And that's where we met
and became friends, there was Włodi,

248
00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:57,280
Wilku and Pelson, they had a
band called the “Funky Joint Squad”.

249
00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:08,240
<i>The 11th Commandment is our message
Funky Joint Squad is washing your brains.</i>

250
00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:09,840
Hey,

251
00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,600
Here is a young
amateur fisherman's guide,

252
00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:18,760
Here we've got our worms and in a moment
I will perform a so-called forehand cast.

253
00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,960
<i>What's inside you is important:</i>

254
00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,800
<i>honour, dignity, ambition
keeping promises.</i>

255
00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,320
<i>My brother from Mokotów is here.
Man, listen to him now.</i>

256
00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:28,880
<i>Maybe he'll give you some advice</i>

257
00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,480
Our guys were here.

258
00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,720
MOKOTÓW RULES

259
00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,640
My family home.

260
00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,480
Eight people lived in this apartment.
26 square metres.

261
00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,840
The toilet was downstairs
in the basement.

262
00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,840
There's still no gas here, no hot water.

263
00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:55,160
My mother was born
in this house in 1950.

264
00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,040
<i>Some guys in hoodies are approaching
They're not monks</i>

265
00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,640
<i>They're bad and bald
It's Klima, kapish?</i>

266
00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,400
<i>Never say no way man
That we share the same tattoos</i>

267
00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,160
<i>We are your nightmares
A couple of guys unified mystically</i>

268
00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,480
<i>On the skin alphabetically
Europe speaking geographically</i>

269
00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,680
<i>We seal our honour with blood
With music, molested technique...</i>

270
00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,560
We used to spend a lot of time here.

271
00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,000
It's all ours,
these things are 20 years old.

272
00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,520
<i>Proceder will always be a part of Klima</i>

273
00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,920
<i>We know who's side to be on</i>

274
00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,680
<i>Who to stick with and who to beat up.</i>

275
00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,280
<i>So you better watch out
if you're standing in a dark alley</i>

276
00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:36,840
<i>If you're not alright
you'll get wrecked.</i>

277
00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:42,080
<i>Here Centrum and Grochów enter
The Infamous Proceder - Chada and Kacza</i>

278
00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,680
<i>No amateurs here, everyone's a pro
A message only for the real people</i>

279
00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,600
<i>We're not looking for listeners</i>

280
00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,600
A person's roots were always
important, where you come from.

281
00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:59,600
If nobody knew you, you couldn't go
through this neighbourhood unnoticed.

282
00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,720
You would have problems right away.

283
00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,720
Here's my street, Wilcza.

284
00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:11,440
The district police headquarters,
Wilcza 21.

285
00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,880
I was severely persecuted by the cops.

286
00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,400
Fuck them, to the grave.

287
00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,160
<i>Now: Chada, Sza, KCHP and Vienio</i>

288
00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,240
<i>These are the guys from Klima.</i>

289
00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,160
<i>If you know something
then keep your mouth shut</i>

290
00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,960
<i>And don't use this word at all
let our speech be foreign to you.</i>

291
00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,120
<i>Shoutout to the guys from Mokotów</i>

292
00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,800
<i>And let's not forget about
my brothers from Ursynów</i>

293
00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:35,496
<i>Klima – you don't know
what we're talkin' about</i>

294
00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,760
<i>so what's your problem
You're messing with Klima.</i>

295
00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,040
Klima?
It was our group, that was the name.

296
00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:49,240
A few guys. Sort of a gang, we were
connected by everything then, life.

297
00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,560
We were connected by life above all.

298
00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,400
We were aware
of the bullshit surrounding us.

299
00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:01,480
You just had to try and survive somehow.

300
00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,680
To not get put down.

301
00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:09,280
You can call it rebellion,
or you can call it street smarts.

302
00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,800
And this is my building
at Sosnowskiego 3 Street.

303
00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,880
I kept all my vinyl collections
in this room.

304
00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:23,440
From the beginning, since '96,
those vinyls just kept coming in.

305
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:28,080
There were no phones yet;
So you know...

306
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,960
"Vienio, come on, let's go to school".

307
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,240
I only finished primary school.

308
00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,800
I didn't finish any other school.

309
00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,800
I never intended to finish it.

310
00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,200
School will teach you some habits.

311
00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,360
Knowledge, some classifications,

312
00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,480
regularity, maybe how to be responsible.

313
00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,840
These are all the things
that drove me away from it.

314
00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:54,240
I noticed the inconsistencies
and the bullshit.

315
00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,520
I noticed that this knowledge
does not apply at all,

316
00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,200
it's not useful in life.

317
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,920
I may be wrong,

318
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,520
but it's probably best to acquire
knowledge when you really want to.

319
00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,480
Production board of Włodi.

320
00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,960
The two most important things in
my life in those times, in one photo.

321
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:19,600
A small seedling and an MPC 2000.

322
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,800
Because I didn't have my own room,
I listened to music on my headphones,

323
00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,960
so it was the first one I bought.

324
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,840
I slept here, and my brother slept here.

325
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,840
And in the middle there was
a table with a beat-machine.

326
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,480
I'd open my eyes
and it was right in front of me.

327
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,560
I'd get up and get to work. Awesome.

328
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,520
<i>Firstly, not for fame
Secondly, not for money</i>

329
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,400
<i>You can rap well
even when living in poverty</i>

330
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,440
<i>Klima, Włodi hangs with them
Whether it's smoking or fights</i>

331
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,720
<i>Everyone asks why I curse</i>

332
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,520
<i>All this shit of everyday life</i>

333
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,440
<i>Working from morning to night
and what do you get</i>

334
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,480
<i>Time for what really matters</i>

335
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,920
<i>Lay your cards out on the table</i>

336
00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:06,160
<i>Be loyal, be honourable</i>

337
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,640
<i>Be good to your friends</i>

338
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,800
<i>Fuck everything and stay in the shadows</i>

339
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:13,200
<i>Don't feel better than others</i>

340
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:14,960
<i>and everyone will want
to shake your hand</i>

341
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,520
<i>I will never hear:
You're on your own</i>

342
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,400
<i>I know what it's like to be poor
I had cockroaches at home.</i>

343
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,080
<i>In my eyes you'll never see remorse.</i>

344
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,160
My mother worked two shifts.

345
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,840
Almost every Saturday, day after day.

346
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,560
So every day I saw someone
who was exhausted.

347
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,640
Who worked to provide for her
children so they had something to eat.

348
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,360
And I didn't have to experience it
myself to know that I didn't want that.

349
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:44,240
I have great respect for people who may
not be suffering but they work this way.

350
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,280
They make sacrifices and
sometimes I have nothing to

351
00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,600
talk to them about because
I am ashamed to say what I do.

352
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,240
That I smoke weed and write songs?

353
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:57,600
And how hard it is for me?
I'm not having a hard time, it's amazing.

354
00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,400
What's up! Go to your class!

355
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,000
Or else you'll have to become rappers.

356
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,760
<i>Molesta and Klima are not only lyrical</i>

357
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,920
<i>A relationship of soulmates
real like dust on the analog</i>

358
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,760
<i>Listen to it and use
your head, you'll be shocked</i>

359
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,600
<i>That we all live in blocks
Since we were born</i>

360
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,400
<i>We don't know the comforts of villas</i>

361
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,240
<i>Our passion is hardcore...</i>

362
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,400
We did not give in to that grey life.
We just...

363
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,960
Whether it was summer or winter,

364
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:38,800
we would come to see our friends,
other rappers.

365
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,680
There were turntables there,
we put a huge speaker over there.

366
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,720
We got electricity from the caretaker,
our friends from all over Warsaw came.

367
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:51,520
Jaźwa came and said
he was attacked by some guys.

368
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,120
We immediately decided to help him.

369
00:22:55,200 --> 00:23:00,960
20 people jaywalking,
just like we're doing now.

370
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:13,840
The policeman stopped by the entrance
to the parking lot. He left his car.

371
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,720
He looked in our direction.

372
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,360
And he decided to stop us.

373
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,520
Two policemen in a police car,
and 20 people are walking here.

374
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:29,160
The guy ran out of the car.
He reloaded his gun and started firing.

375
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,080
We're high and we're looking
at him like he's fucked up.

376
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:38,320
We came here, everyone threw
away their sticks. Under the cars.

377
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:39,600
He drives up

378
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,040
and tells everyone to get down on
the ground. "On the fucking ground!"

379
00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:45,160
If someone didn't want to lie down,

380
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,840
he would trip him, turn him over.
He was aggressive.

381
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,320
One, two, four, five police cars
pull up. More and more policemen.

382
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,560
They handcuffed us all here.

383
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,000
And drove us to the police station
at Janowskiego Street.

384
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,240
The police station
at Janowskiego Street, 28th September.

385
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,520
Everyone who left the patrol car
was beaten up.

386
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,360
Then I got hit in my back,
I fell to my knees,

387
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,600
and that asshole asked,

388
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,200
"What? Does your back hurt
at such a young age? Get up!”

389
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,640
“What did you hit me for?”

390
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,440
“For your desire to live”

391
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:21,800
After this beating, I was so confused
that I didn't even know which way to go.

392
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,080
I went right and found a bus.

393
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,800
I wrote some lyrics right away.

394
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,040
Pure hatred spilled on paper
in 15 minutes after what had happened.

395
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,440
<i>Ursynów, Warsaw
this is where it happened</i>

396
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,160
<i>An autumn evening, the cold wind is blowing
Sticks in our hands</i>

397
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,440
<i>I'm with the whole group
We're going to beat up some guys</i>

398
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,400
<i>Through the neighbourhood and streets
I salute my crew</i>

399
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,320
<i>Then the police stop us on the road</i>

400
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,760
<i>Nothing I can do
even if I really wanted to</i>

401
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,400
<i>A shot is fired – pow! pow! pow!</i>

402
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,640
<i>A cop with a gun in his hand</i>

403
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,520
<i>He wants me to be scared</i>

404
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,760
<i>I do not feel fear and I'm not afraid</i>

405
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,480
<i>With my hands on my head
and face in the sand.</i>

406
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,920
<i>I feel pride, fuck them all</i>

407
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,640
<i>Society to which I am a threat</i>

408
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,080
<i>I am a hooligan and I will not change</i>

409
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,600
<i>My people know me well</i>

410
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,320
<i>I'm standing handcuffed with my friend</i>

411
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,200
<i>Everyone's getting ready to get
beaten up, but no one breaks</i>

412
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,720
<i>That's what my mother taught me</i>

413
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,440
<i>your face ain't made from glass
it won't break.</i>

414
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,960
<i>I clench my teeth
because I know it's true</i>

415
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,520
<i>That the police will always be around.</i>

416
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,680
Man, everyone was waiting for
these words. Molesta was raw.

417
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,880
We didn't use words
that were artistic, subtle.

418
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,440
Who the fuck needs that?!

419
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,400
Listen to Grechuta. Rap is rap.

420
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,240
I didn't like the fact that
in the '90s the label

421
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,040
or specific people had a monopoly
on what you could and couldn't do.

422
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,080
If you didn't have the opportunity
to enter the studio,

423
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,280
you could never show
your music anywhere.

424
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,080
<i>Now the young
are picking up microphones.</i>

425
00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,680
What could you do? Print it out,

426
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,120
stand in the street market
and fucking sell your CDs?

427
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,440
<i>I don't hide my lyrics
in the drawer so much anymore</i>

428
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,320
<i>They're doing something
working on themselves</i>

429
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,880
<i>I feel there's something new in the air</i>

430
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,720
I wanted to open up my own business,

431
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,000
CO-FOUNDER OF B.E.A.T. RECORDS
- What business?

432
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,000
CO-FOUNDER OF B.E.A.T. RECORDS
- We came up with the idea

433
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,280
to release Polish hip-hop music.

434
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:29,600
I met Volt and I said listen: Why don't
we create a record label or release it?

435
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,720
<i>I rub my hands with joy</i>

436
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,760
<i>V.O.L.T will always support you.</i>

437
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,320
There were more people
who wanted to rap

438
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,760
than those who made beats
or knew how to make them.

439
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,760
So I had the freedom of choice.

440
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,880
It was an aesthetic choice,
it wasn't calculated.

441
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:54,000
We didn't know whether it
would sell or not, it didn't matter.

442
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:59,240
We didn't have even a penny to
invest in this project.

443
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,480
Apart from the fact that we didn't have
money, we didn't know how to do it.

444
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:10,880
So Sebastian (DJ 600 V), Wicik
and me, we went to see Hirek Wrona.

445
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:16,120
The foreign music video of the year award goes
to the Pet Shop Boys for the song "Go West".

446
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,320
MUSIC JOURNALIST
- They were very distrustful of me.

447
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:20,520
Very distrustful.

448
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,640
They even asked Volt
what's this guy doing here?

449
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,160
Volt said: I know that there are some
turbulences in Molesta,

450
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,760
but I would support them.

451
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,680
And I said: Great, I'll help them.

452
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,880
And he took us to Pomaton EMI,
to a major record label.

453
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,840
I felt it could be a breakthrough
for the whole scene.

454
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,040
On the other hand,
how do I get into that environment?

455
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,480
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AT POMATON EMI

456
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,520
We were from the group of major
record companies:

457
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:55,560
Warner, Sony, EMI.

458
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,800
In Poland they were seen
as uncool corporations

459
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,360
among these young rebellious performers.

460
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,080
From my perspective
it was simply authentic.

461
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,800
It represented the spirit
of that time in some sense.

462
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,720
You know, such an authentic,
true spirit.

463
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,880
I remember that meeting to
this today, it was groundbreaking.

464
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,200
<i>Thank you guys, elo!</i>

465
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:47,760
When 10 hooded guys entered the company,
it caused a thrill, some anxiety.

466
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,640
We had never seen
something like that in our company.

467
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,360
They walked with their head and arms,
and only at the end with their feet.

468
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,200
It was hard to distinguish
one from the other.

469
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,040
They didn't actually have names,
just nicknames.

470
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,640
In sweatshirts, I don't know
when they were last washed.

471
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,920
They were surprised when we asked
if they'd like some coffee or tea.

472
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,720
Perhaps no one had offered
them coffee or tea before.

473
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,080
What institutions
could they have gone to

474
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,560
where they would have been asked
“coffee or tea?”

475
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:23,240
It was hard to imagine that it would be
possible to get music out of these guys.

476
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:28,960
Music that could be recorded and sold.
Who would buy it? What's going on?

477
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaking of real hip-hop...
this is real hip-hop.

478
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,160
And then people will have
the opportunity to hear real hip-hop.

479
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,800
<i>I will tell now
about something old as the world</i>

480
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,160
<i>Although I'm only twenty-one years old</i>

481
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,640
<i>I have a lot to say about respect</i>

482
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,160
<i>I represent Molesta's dreams</i>

483
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,480
<i>Respect – a form of enriching the mind</i>

484
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,000
<i>People respect money</i>

485
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,440
<i>Probably because it's so difficult to earn</i>

486
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,800
<i>That's enough about that</i>

487
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,360
<i>If you're real, you demand respect</i>

488
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,800
<i>You insulted him, he's ready to fight</i>

489
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,200
<i>So he talks and talks, swears and swears</i>

490
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,840
<i>Doesn't look for an explanation</i>

491
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,200
<i>Appearances are often misleading</i>

492
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,720
<i>Humble people bow their heads</i>

493
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,960
<i>It's a shame you can't explain it
to all the idiots</i>

494
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,600
<i>That respect is the key
to understanding</i>

495
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,080
<i>I learn about it more every day</i>

496
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,720
<i>If you want to demand something</i>

497
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,760
<i>Firstly, you have to give it yourself</i>

498
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,360
The guys asked for a contract.

499
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,600
It was crazy.

500
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:38,040
I had to deal with boys who didn't know
what terms like “gross” and “net” mean.

501
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,840
They were only interested in cash.

502
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,440
What taxes? What's gross?
What tax office? Wait.

503
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,480
<i>Which loser has a problem?</i>

504
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,120
<i>Look for a solution</i>

505
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,440
<i>When I look into your eyes
I see the same thing</i>

506
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,920
<i>You proudly show me high losers</i>

507
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,160
<i>Scams are in your blood</i>

508
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,800
<i>Nowadays it doesn't surprise anyone</i>

509
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,280
<i>When your friend is being molested
by someone, do something</i>

510
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,960
<i>Your neighbour is
being harassed, do something</i>

511
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,200
<i>Always keep your promises</i>

512
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,440
<i>Then you'll never be alone</i>

513
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,200
<i>Stop, stop, always pay your debts</i>

514
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,520
<i>Then you'll always be first
never second,</i>

515
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,120
<i>Nobody likes to live in poverty</i>

516
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,520
<i>Everyone works hard for money</i>

517
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,000
<i>Have you done someone a favour for free?</i>

518
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,560
<i>If not, your future is dim</i>

519
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,040
<i>You won't do more than you can do</i>

520
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,560
<i>You can't beat someone
who's better than you</i>

521
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:35,160
They listened, asked, learned.
We signed the contract.

522
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,760
It seemed like it was happening too fast.
I didn't feel it, you know,

523
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,200
besides, I was a street child,
I didn't want to get attached.

524
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,800
I didn't know if I would be
out of prison in a year or two.

525
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,160
Will something happen to me?
Why should I sign anything?

526
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,760
I didn't need it at that time
and I didn't sign it.

527
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,320
And as it turned out,
I did the right thing.

528
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,720
Damn, I have a job for 7 years.
I just remember that thought.

529
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,280
Some guys didn't have contracts yet

530
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,200
and didn't know
what they were going to do.

531
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:07,960
They didn't have bands.

532
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,080
And we had a contract,
so we were becoming professional.

533
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,320
We wouldn't be recording for ourselves,

534
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:19,320
but in a studio and the album
would appear on the market.

535
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,960
And this would result in playing
concerts and being in a band.

536
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,120
Not bad.

537
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,800
The band adopted the name
Molesta Evenement.

538
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,000
And I was waiting for the master tape.

539
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,160
So we started writing.

540
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,560
- Hi! Hey, damn, you're thin...
- Long time no see. What short hair!

541
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Your old toys…

542
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,960
Yeah. This is the key device,
it's down here.

543
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:54,960
Most of my first albums and
Molesta's albums, certainly "Scandal",

544
00:32:55,080 --> 00:33:00,400
were created on something like this.
This is a sampler, a 12-bit Akai sampler,

545
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,280
S-900, I had to
save up a lot for this equipment.

546
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,400
I took a loan to get this one!
At that time, it was impossible

547
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,200
to save audio in large quantities
on the computer and play it.

548
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,360
I had an Akai NG 14 D analog tape
recorder, you probably don't remember

549
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,080
- that it was recorded on analog.
- No, no, oh, damn it was analog.

550
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,560
You know, vintage.

551
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,880
SOUND / RECORDING ENGINEER
- There was rock, metal,

552
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,720
classical music,
everything apart from hip-hop.

553
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,240
SOUND ENGINEER / MASTERING
- They brought CDs so I could listen to it,

554
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,120
what it's all about,
that it's different from rock-pop.

555
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,520
We were the first to record such music.
They had no clue about it.

556
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,800
A guy comes in
and records just the vocals,

557
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,080
and played the music
from a tape recorder.

558
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,400
They said things like “increase the volume”
or “make the snare drum louder”.

559
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,360
Or “turn the vocals down”,
and I tried to explain to them

560
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,680
that they would
have to bring these tracks.

561
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,080
So they said
they would go and get the tracks.

562
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:01,760
They would take off their
headphones and run to listen,

563
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,120
discuss it, run there and back again.

564
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,680
Everyone was so interested,
but kind of like children in the fog.

565
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,040
They treated us like
some fucking idiots.

566
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:18,080
What is that? Music? The same four
bars were repeated over and over again.

567
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,240
And they seemed abandoned,

568
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,640
that the world around them
doesn't want them.

569
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,760
I had the impression that
they might be orphans or something.

570
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,960
We were travelling by
suburban train to the studio.

571
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,880
To go to Komorów.
Why not a studio in downtown Warsaw?

572
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:52,800
It wasn't New York, everything was
still grey. Ursynów-Polish-rural. Damn.

573
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,880
That's why it pissed me off a bit.

574
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,720
We didn't realise
how serious the situation was.

575
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:01,880
There were a lot of people

576
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,800
because it coincided
with the birthday of one of our friends.

577
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,480
We were going to record,
so everyone came along.

578
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:17,120
<i>Tede, I invite you to my world.
You can come here if you have a joint</i>

579
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,840
<i>The date's not important
I smoke every day</i>

580
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,280
<i>I'm somewhere else, THC is in me</i>

581
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,840
<i>Green power, ultra-nice</i>

582
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,720
<i>Always something
and I'll always have an excuse</i>

583
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,040
There was a strong group there,
they partied hard.

584
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:34,760
RAPPER:
- But we wrote this song on the train,

585
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,040
and it was finished in the studio.

586
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,640
But because the guys
were still recording there,

587
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:42,360
it took them a while to finish it.

588
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,600
That's how we appeared on this album.

589
00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:49,480
Chada was there,
and Kaczy.

590
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,800
Everyone had their own notebooks,

591
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:57,360
because that's where
you would write your lyrics then.

592
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,960
It was practically freestyling.

593
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,200
Wilku was there.

594
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,720
We were putting in
1000 percent of our energy.

595
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:05,960
And Numer Raz.

596
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,440
RAPPER: - They were chavs,
we were afraid of them.

597
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,440
Well, maybe I'm kidding a little now.

598
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,840
<i>I respect my buddies and I get respect</i>

599
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,200
<i>Włodi, Kaczy, Vienio and Klima
many others too</i>

600
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,920
<i>Shoutout to Ursynów
and shoutout to Śródmieście</i>

601
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,080
<i>Shoutout to Służew and to Mokotów</i>

602
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,800
It was the worst that I once thought
that you can't make a good beat in Poland.

603
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,920
How they do it that they rap so cool
and the beats just flow? And we tried.

604
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,840
But the hi-hat was wrong,
the bass drum was wrong.

605
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,880
Volt was already experienced
and he had this awesome machine.

606
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,040
Try pressing something.

607
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,160
Ok.

608
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:42,120
It looks like nothing's
really coming out of that.

609
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,240
I recognise this bridge.

610
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:50,360
We would go down to the basement.
Yes, it was here.

611
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,080
It's here, the backyard over there.

612
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,840
And this room had windows like that,
covered with something.

613
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,600
I remember there were
16 tracks on the album.

614
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:14,480
So we recorded 9 songs one day
and 9 songs the next day.

615
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,760
Well no, that's 18, but there
was also an intro and outro,

616
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,720
and I had to do some scratching.
It was difficult for me.

617
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,920
You know, we made mistakes. We wanted
to make corrections, get a better flow.

618
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,720
Everyone wanted to be on the track.

619
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,400
We were inside the studio 24 hours.

620
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,920
We recorded the album in
two 12-hour long sessions.

621
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,320
The samples are working now.

622
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,160
We got it.

623
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:46,120
Sounds a bit like Molesta.

624
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,000
We couldn't look
at that notebook any longer.

625
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,560
Our notebooks were
completely filled with lyrics.

626
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,000
<i>I knew that's how it's going to be</i>

627
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,120
<i>We always end up
at the police station for nothing</i>

628
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:02,920
<i>They beat us up and feel proud</i>

629
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,880
<i>Let me start from the beginning</i>

630
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,320
<i>Everything is true
I have to be fair</i>

631
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,880
Here, it was across the street.
We definitely crossed over here.

632
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:18,240
We knew that these words were recorded.
That nothing could undo this.

633
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,440
We poured gasoline and set them on fire.

634
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,056
I kind of regret
that I burned that notebook.

635
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,280
But then again, what the fuck
did I need it for anyways?

636
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,360
<i>Klima and I locked up in the police car
Faster than you could tell</i>

637
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,040
<i>They're taking us to the police station</i>

638
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,720
<i>An ass kicking guaranteed
no need to provoke</i>

639
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,480
<i>Stand in one line</i>

640
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,360
<i>They released everyone
we were all innocent</i>

641
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,000
<i>A few beatings
for being different from society</i>

642
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,640
<i>For living and for being everywhere</i>

643
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,520
<i>I knew it would be like this</i>

644
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,040
<i>I knew it would be like this</i>

645
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,080
That's all I remember,
I would have to improvise the rest.

646
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,840
<i>I knew it would be like this.
I knew it, I knew it</i>

647
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,240
<i>I knew it would be like this</i>

648
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:11,400
<i>I knew it would be like this</i>

649
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,120
<i>I knew it would be like this
I knew it, I knew it</i>

650
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,400
<i>I knew it would be like this
When I heard hip-hop for the first time</i>

651
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,680
<i>I wanted to be an MC, I listened
and wrote, I wrote and listened</i>

652
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,200
<i>I did my thing and didn't imitate</i>

653
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,960
<i>But there are things I didn't expect</i>

654
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,600
<i>That our songs
would shake things up so much</i>

655
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,320
<i>That people still ask about our album</i>

656
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,560
<i>They wanted it, they finally have it</i>

657
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,240
<i>How they judge it is up to them</i>

658
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,360
<i>I'm just doing my part
Vienio also believes in it</i>

659
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,960
We could feel that people liked it.

660
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:53,720
But we didn't get cocky.
We didn't feel like stars.

661
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,720
We were still walking
around in old shoes.

662
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,960
We still had only two zlotys
for grilled cheese baguettes.

663
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:07,040
And we were still getting fucking exploited
by our record company. It wasn't so fun.

664
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,800
<i>Don't close the door today</i>

665
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,520
<i>Cause I'm gonna be out late
with the boys</i>

666
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,160
<i>Back home in a while
and quickly to the subway</i>

667
00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:19,120
<i>Pissed off because I waited
at the post office</i>

668
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,616
<i>The bell's ringing at Krępol's
house, but there's no one downstairs</i>

669
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,520
<i>The crew is going to meet
at school at 8 o'clock</i>

670
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,960
<i>We've been in the same shit
for several years</i>

671
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,040
<i>What are you drinking?
Vodka? Beer? Cola?</i>

672
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,840
They came back with the master tape.

673
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,640
In terms of my previous work,

674
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:41,000
if I had to compare it
according to the same scale,

675
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:42,840
then I wouldn't call it
a master tape at all.

676
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,000
<i>Shock! Shock!
Only fifteen minutes are left</i>

677
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,040
<i>If I don't come back on time
there will be trouble</i>

678
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,680
<i>Everyone will go somewhere
and me - kaput, kaput, kaput</i>

679
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,160
<i>The bus isn't arriving, it's late...</i>

680
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,800
But this is hip-hop. This is the
master tape. Here we have the first CD.

681
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:03,240
I would have never thought that it
would be one of the most important ones.

682
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,560
And one of the most
groundbreaking in Polish hip-hop.

683
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,960
RAPPER: - They're going somewhere,
suddenly the police appear.

684
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:20,160
They're beaten up, there's a police
siren sound effect in the background.

685
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:25,480
One of them pretends to be
a police officer using a walkie-talkie.

686
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:30,600
It was such a vivid image, nothing
like anything else before in Polish rap.

687
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:36,000
RAPPER: - It was a total revolution.
Everyone was listening to Scandal.

688
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,840
RAPPER: - I listened to it over
and over and over again.

689
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,440
I didn't turn it off at all.

690
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,360
RAPPER: - It was an explosion,
something different,

691
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,760
it was the fuckin' appearance
of the rap pope.

692
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,720
An awesome album, it's the only Polish
album I've listened to so many times.

693
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,720
I was listening to it on my Walkman

694
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,840
and if I played it now,
I would rap to the whole album.

695
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,720
And to this day,
if somebody woke me up and mentioned

696
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,320
"What's in the neighbourhood",
I would get up and just rap the verses.

697
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,760
Because, as I have said before,
this is like the Bible for me.

698
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,840
RAPPER:
- It blew everyone's minds,

699
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,440
it really opened a new era
in Polish show business.

700
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,760
I was the beginning
of the Warsaw rap scene,

701
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:23,920
of the Polish rap scene.

702
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:31,040
Real hip-hop, powerful, Polish.

703
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,080
And they started a new era.

704
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:45,840
The queue was up till here.
This is where we smoked.

705
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,840
- Volt, are you going home?
- Yeah

706
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,240
- Lend me a phone card, please.
- Ok.

707
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,240
And here was the memorable
concert by Molesta.

708
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:01,080
The first one promoting
the album "Scandal".

709
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:06,000
The premiere took place here,
come on in.

710
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,000
<i>Everyone is waiting for a beating</i>

711
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,496
<i>- but they don't break, 20 MARCH '98</i>

712
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,120
<i>That's what my mother taught me</i>

713
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,520
<i>your face
ain't made from glass, it won't break</i>

714
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,120
<i>I clench my
teeth because I know it's true</i>

715
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,520
<i>That the police will always be around</i>

716
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,600
<i>You're wrong if you think otherwise</i>

717
00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:24,680
<i>A truncheon's a truncheon</i>

718
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,560
Of course I was there.
I even performed there.

719
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,520
When Molesta was playing a show,
everyone went.

720
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,040
They had just released
their official album in Warsaw.

721
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,160
At concerts in those times, there used
to be 300 homies on the stage.

722
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:37,760
No one knew who was rapping there.

723
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,000
<i>My guys and my hood around me</i>

724
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,600
<i>Society talkin' about the arrest</i>

725
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,000
<i>We're thrown in the back seat</i>

726
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,520
<i>I know we won't be back happy</i>

727
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:56,320
Everyone. All those groups from
which many artists developed.

728
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,320
They were with us, so it was
one big family. It was beautiful.

729
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,160
<i>That's life</i>

730
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,360
<i>That's life</i>

731
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,480
<i>That's life
That's life</i>

732
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,120
<i>Who's that partying 24 hours a day</i>

733
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,000
<i>In the rain, in the worst weather</i>

734
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:21,040
<i>The most drunk have the most fun
ZN always high</i>

735
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,760
<i>When you're high, time flows slower</i>

736
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,400
<i>The whole booth is filled with smoke</i>

737
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,760
<i>You need to smoke
because you'll miss the best</i>

738
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,400
<i>Hey guys wait for me for a moment</i>

739
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,000
<i>I called for the dope
but no one answered</i>

740
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,560
<i>The strongest Warka
will hit us today.</i>

741
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,120
<i>Do you remember
Robson's and Mark's birthday Pele?</i>

742
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,680
<i>Now that was drinking
money or no money</i>

743
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,760
<i>That's just life, will you help me out?</i>

744
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,880
<i>Livin' without cash
ain't for me no more</i>

745
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,320
<i>Let's drink some vodka
and start a brawl</i>

746
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,920
<i>Now crush a can with your left foot</i>

747
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,280
<i>For the health of those
who can't drink today</i>

748
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,080
<i>In a moment
we're off to the 24-hour liquor store</i>

749
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,560
<i>The weak stay at home and get fat</i>

750
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:01,760
<i>That's life, kid
that's life, That's life</i>

751
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:03,960
<i>That's life</i>

752
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,160
<i>That's life</i>

753
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:08,880
<i>That's life</i>

754
00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:11,320
<i>That's life</i>

755
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,560
<i>That's life, elo!</i>

756
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:16,080
<i>That's life</i>

757
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,440
Koniu, what do you think
about the show? Beautiful.

758
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,960
But we didn't think
that it was a "milestone".

759
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,480
And that we're the fucking best.

760
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:28,520
No, no. We just put
the album out on the market.

761
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,800
I didn't have a clue how
many copies we would sell.

762
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,840
B.E.A.T. RECORDS:
- Yes, I was interested,

763
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:38,760
but the sales really went up
after a year or 6 months.

764
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,880
More than a year has passed since
the release of the first album, right?

765
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,680
What's changed during this time?

766
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,160
Nothing has changed really.

767
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:51,640
We're recording songs
all the time and living the same way.

768
00:45:51,720 --> 00:45:54,160
We're doing what we've always
been doing, we haven't changed.

769
00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:56,640
We're making music,
but we'll be talking about new things.

770
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,376
We don't want to do the same
thing again, that's what it's about.

771
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,080
The topics are new,
these are not rhymes about rhymes.

772
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,120
We will never write rhymes about rhymes,
everything has to have a message.

773
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,960
<i>Pure breath
A new sound</i>

774
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,320
<i>The Warsaw underground.</i>

775
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,680
<i>City music
It's for you kid</i>

776
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,480
<i>The city needs it</i>

777
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,480
<i>Just like you
An honest message</i>

778
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:20,080
<i>This is everyday life
City music, a phenomenon – unity</i>

779
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,680
<i>City music is the city's breath</i>

780
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,360
<i>Not available to everyone
like the highest caste</i>

781
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,680
B.E.A.T. RECORDS:
- Our relationship was hard,

782
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,400
it's difficult to control
twenty 17- or 18-year-olds

783
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,080
who come to a meeting.

784
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,760
There was fame and it was big.

785
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:39,120
But there was no money.

786
00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:42,880
There was no second music video there,
no vinyl record, no this and that.

787
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,200
No more singles.

788
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,120
Pomaton suddenly told us that
they wouldn't give us money for that.

789
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,240
I was aware that I had to
really loosen my standards.

790
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:56,560
And they had to learn that
there are certain standards here.

791
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,440
We were sitting on the bench
with Wicik and waiting for them,

792
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,160
I don't remember
what we wanted to talk about.

793
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:06,520
And they came, around 10 or 15 of them.

794
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,680
And there's pressure, they're swearing.

795
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,240
A dozen or so guys.

796
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:16,960
Most people who start promoting Polish hip-hop
don't have the slightest idea how to do it.

797
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:20,160
They usually promote rock bands
or something else.

798
00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:24,520
You have to have a different
approach to people,

799
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,000
It's music for young people,

800
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,040
A specific group of young people.

801
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,640
In '00 I was contacted
by some guys from TV

802
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:33,000
MUSIC JOURNALIST

803
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:37,080
who said that there is a need to
expand into more ambitious areas,

804
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:45,520
and that there will be an open-air
stage at the festival in Opole.

805
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:50,320
And of course “Ich Troje”
would be performing,

806
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,880
as well as "Maryla",

807
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,640
and we got the open-air stage.

808
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,520
HIP-HOP OPOLE CONCER, '01

809
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,160
Polish Hip-Hop Opole.

810
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,480
They thought we'd fucking rap
somewhere in the park.

811
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,560
And I got on the stage that morning

812
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:14,080
as 20,000 people were
walking from the train station.

813
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,880
And these people came from
all these different cities and towns,

814
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:23,200
and what were they doing?
They were rapping about their cities,

815
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:24,880
about the records they listened to.

816
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:30,840
It was a moment when
this rebellion was documented.

817
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,280
The world was changing,
the times were changing.

818
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,320
<i>It'll be ok kid</i>

819
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,360
<i>Elo, it'll be ok kid</i>

820
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:41,840
<i>Are you ready?</i>

821
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,680
<i>It is how it is</i>

822
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:48,760
Molesta was the first band
I chose for Hip-Hop Opole.

823
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,920
MUSIC JOURNALIST: - I could not
imagine this concert without them.

824
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,600
It was also a fantastic period
in their career.

825
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,640
They performed in a group of four.

826
00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:01,800
Vienio, Pelson, Włodi, and Wilku.

827
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,600
Vienio had a broken leg or something.

828
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,320
But it was a really
fantastic performance.

829
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,680
<i>Our records in our hands
Not gold or platinum</i>

830
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,720
<i>Polish hardcore productions</i>

831
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,080
<i>Talented kids, we must believe in them</i>

832
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,880
<i>Their pure breath of life
Why wouldn't your dreams come true?</i>

833
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,120
<i>Don't be afraid
to make difficult decisions</i>

834
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,760
<i>This indecision creates a collision</i>

835
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,800
<i>So fuck the obstacles
Everything's gonna go its course</i>

836
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,800
<i>It'll be alright is our slogan</i>

837
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,880
<i>Show humility, never to others
Only to yourself</i>

838
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,160
<i>Principles given
Life created by the clever</i>

839
00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:37,680
<i>Recognise their plans
take a deep breath</i>

840
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,040
<i>Look ahead, keep your hands steady</i>

841
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,000
<i>It's an age-old dream from the hood</i>

842
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,960
<i>About a family
a woman, your own account</i>

843
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,360
<i>Minimum wage is trivial for some</i>

844
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:48,960
<i>What we want
how we think and how we live</i>

845
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:50,400
<i>A normal life, no negativity</i>

846
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,680
I saw how people
were reacting at the shows.

847
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:59,120
Something was happening.
I didn't expect all that.

848
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,120
And that it would happen so fast.

849
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:03,440
<i>As much as the average person</i>

850
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:05,520
<i>The beginning of
the end of the 21st century</i>

851
00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:10,960
<i>It'll be ok, kid, elo!
Keep your head up</i>

852
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:15,360
<i>It'll be ok kid, It'll be ok</i>

853
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,120
<i>I carry a new message
The mic is a tool</i>

854
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:19,600
<i>Man, it'll be fine</i>

855
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:23,440
This music began to have
its place in music stores,

856
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,240
and suddenly shelves
with hip-hop music appeared.

857
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,000
JOURNALIST / CULTURAL PROMOTER:
- You could hear hip-hop from cars

858
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,320
and on the streets.

859
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,360
A police car was driving by

860
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:37,480
and you could hear that they were
listening to hip-hop in the car.

861
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:41,160
It was really working,
it finally happened.

862
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:47,600
Suddenly there were not 5 artists
in each district, but 500.

863
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,320
Everyone now had microphones, computers
and wanted to express themselves.

864
00:50:53,600 --> 00:51:01,600
I also saw my old friends
releasing albums. They became big stars.

865
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:08,680
They achieved what
they dreamed of as teenagers.

866
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:09,920
It was great.

867
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,760
<i>French hip-hop, Dutch weed
Polish brunettes, blonde,</i>

868
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,160
<i>Not exotic drinks
And not Colombian breath</i>

869
00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:25,320
<i>but a cold beer</i>

870
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,040
<i>In the quantity of one hundred
and twenty-three, Briefly, Peter</i>

871
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:29,480
<i>Let our friendship never die</i>

872
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,080
<i>Ok, what are we going to do?
We're meeting at the cinema</i>

873
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,320
<i>We'll settle the matter
We'll make a few calls</i>

874
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:35,760
<i>Dude, check your phone</i>

875
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,840
<i>Position number five
is Gośka - quick hands</i>

876
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:40,800
<i>Next, number six:
Kaśka, slightly chubby</i>

877
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,200
<i>But she has the best lips</i>

878
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:43,960
<i>People have different tastes</i>

879
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:45,800
<i>Call the beautiful Veronica</i>

880
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,440
<i>"Hey, hey, how are you?
Are you free today?</i>

881
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,160
<i>You won't leave us like that, will you?</i>

882
00:51:50,240 --> 00:51:52,440
<i>I'll be at nine, it'll be beautiful.</i>

883
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,160
<i>I'll take my friends
and everything we need"</i>

884
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,840
<i>All the best</i>

885
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:01,040
Fucking America!

886
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:04,000
It's huge!

887
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,200
<i>I saw a beautiful mmm.
I tried to pick her up</i>

888
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,840
<i>"Elo! How's it going?
She said: "Awesome"</i>

889
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,600
<i>THE FIRST TOUR IN THE USA, '02
- Marijuana heals sick minds</i>

890
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,360
<i>Drugs - no
under no circumstances</i>

891
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,800
<i>I take weed, crumble and roll it</i>

892
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,240
<i>You still don't know how to?
Then watch how it's done</i>

893
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,040
<i>They say "stop smoking!"
and we smoke more and more</i>

894
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,480
<i>Whatever it is, it's still not enough</i>

895
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,880
<i>Get the hell out, only natural pot</i>

896
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,560
<i>I wanna have a whole
greenhouse with my friends</i>

897
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,160
<i>We don't need losers
I'll sniff out any weed</i>

898
00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:35,720
<i>A joint, a beer, pussy
and all that's the best</i>

899
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:40,840
<i>Evenement - smoke in the form of sound
I have no fear, paranoia or phobia</i>

900
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,520
<i>Everyone is different
but we all agree on one thing</i>

901
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,640
<i>Hungry for weed, so don't
tell me it's bad, please</i>

902
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:49,840
<i>I'll add my three cents
I'm talkin' about the ancient times</i>

903
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,240
<i>Like them then, I'm smokin' ganja</i>

904
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,720
<i>Thousands of years
a green flower in many cultures</i>

905
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:56,040
<i>What's the big deal?</i>

906
00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:04,240
Success can be dangerous.
It can ruin everything.

907
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,120
Listen, when money starts coming in,
problems also start appearing.

908
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,480
Arguments and stuff like that.

909
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:15,200
The cost of producing one CD is 1 PLN.

910
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:19,480
And the album costs,
hypothetically, 10 PLN.

911
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,960
Well, somewhere from each CD
there's 9 PLN.

912
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:29,840
Don't you think that you ought
to get some of these 9 PLN,

913
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:31,680
or should it go to the guy
who arranged it?

914
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,160
And you're excited about it.

915
00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:37,520
I'm an idealist, and I understand
that business is business.

916
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,200
But we should share the success equally.
Well, maybe not exactly equally,

917
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:42,400
but at least in part.

918
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,200
They get a young band with
huge potential, who do all the work.

919
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:49,136
But they're the ones building houses.
And the band gets money for fast food.

920
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:50,920
After you free yourself
from this contract,

921
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:55,440
you finally get control
of the situation.

922
00:53:55,520 --> 00:54:00,400
After 2006, we were an independent band.

923
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:04,040
We only signed a distribution contract.

924
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:05,320
We could make more money.

925
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:06,720
50% of the cost?

926
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,400
No, 100% now.

927
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:10,280
100% of our earnings now.

928
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:16,520
In your contract you had 50%
of deductible income?

929
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,000
- Or 20%?
- I'm sure it was 20%.

930
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,680
But it's not tax, it's for our benefit.

931
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,520
- So what's better?
- And so then you have just a 10% tax.

932
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,200
<i>Procedures, procedures</i>

933
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,840
<i>Let's fill out all the forms</i>

934
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,560
<i>Let it happen, let it happen</i>

935
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,080
<i>And a stamp and a souvenir</i>

936
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,200
<i>In the past, they didn't have
CDs or cassettes.</i>

937
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,040
<i>We're goin' on tour.</i>

938
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:46,720
HIP - HOP KEMP / CZECH REPUBLIC '07

939
00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:51,880
The fucking movie must be done!

940
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:57,040
Molesta Evenement! 30 PLN for a DVD

941
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,680
It can be in koronas or euros

942
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:04,240
- And in pounds?
- We accept payments in pounds sterling.

943
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:09,640
The "Respect" brand was established.

944
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:12,320
I remember we sold
wide pants, colourful sweatshirts,

945
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,240
hoodies and t-shirts.

946
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:15,720
Molesta Evenement, homie.

947
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:21,000
And baseball caps, jackets we saw
in music videos by Das EFX.

948
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:25,960
They had jackets with
big collars filled with polar fleece.

949
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:30,280
We took matters into our own hands
every day, there was no time to stop.

950
00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:33,000
Ok, action!

951
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,480
When can we expect
the next single from Molesta then?

952
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,520
Certainly one single that's on the web,

953
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,880
we added it to the T-shirts
that we're selling.

954
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,920
Everything's OK,
T-shirts are available.

955
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:46,440
Is "5G" playing?

956
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,240
Of course,
"5G" is playing, we're doing a lot.

957
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,160
It has become a big business.

958
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,240
Light, give me some light.

959
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,480
<i>Armageddon is a rapid extermination</i>

960
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,800
<i>Who's coming in doesn't go out
that's the rule</i>

961
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:19,920
The big money was on the Reebok Tour.

962
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:24,320
A bus in the video,
a plane flying by.

963
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,120
<i>You know that
no comment is needed</i>

964
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,800
<i>You know the rhythm
these drums are playing</i>

965
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,440
<i>You know that I don't suck up to anyone</i>

966
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,360
<i>There's still a lot of people
who want that shit on the street</i>

967
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,080
<i>I'm not holy.
God will judge me, you know</i>

968
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,560
<i>And I don't turn the other cheek</i>

969
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:48,000
<i>If you count your friends on one hand
Then it's a lot these days</i>

970
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,840
<i>You can end up in prison</i>

971
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,360
<i>When money rules
or disappears from your life</i>

972
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,280
Everything was right.

973
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:59,520
Except the philosophy that you weren't
supposed to take money for rapping.

974
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:01,400
This didn't make sense anymore.

975
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,560
<i>The studio and stage are my life
I remember all those crazy weekends</i>

976
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,320
<i>Fuck trends, industry trends, this way</i>

977
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,840
<i>I worked hard
for this success with varying results</i>

978
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,080
<i>But I've never become a product</i>

979
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,400
<i>And they ask
what is it with this business?</i>

980
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,720
<i>Why don't I drive a Mercedes
and where is my briefcase?</i>

981
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,520
<i>And I just start laughing
For them it will always be just a business</i>

982
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:28,200
This is calculation,
everyone calculates,

983
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,520
At the beginning it was carefree,
because we didn't have anything.

984
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:37,160
As with everything, a company,
clothes, my little system,

985
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,480
In this fucked up system,

986
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:43,360
You have to act according
to their rules, just be good to those

987
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,680
who are your brothers and sisters.

988
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:47,600
You just have to get through it.

989
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:50,160
<i>Warsaw, make some noise!</i>

990
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:56,680
<i>You don't know the day or the hour
Before someone else does it</i>

991
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:57,800
The era has changed.

992
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:04,600
I was brought up in a time when people
said that doing things for money is weak.

993
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,296
That your're supposed to do
everything according to certain ideals.

994
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:13,080
The rap scene changed because
it was a reaction to changes in our world.

995
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,160
Our surroundings look
different than 20 years ago.

996
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:19,640
We wanted capitalism and here it is.

997
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:20,976
"PROCEDES" DIR. M. WĘGRZYN
- As for the fur,

998
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,680
I will deduct it from your salary!

999
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:24,600
But this is against the civil code!

1000
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,720
Ma'am,
this code was in socialism,

1001
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:28,640
and now we have capitalism.

1002
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:30,800
But is this a hospital or a company?

1003
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:32,160
It's a company ma'am!

1004
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:36,640
I think that in some cases
it was a natural evolution.

1005
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:43,800
But I can also laugh a little today that
Vienio, with his shaved head, would say

1006
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:48,320
"I won't go to this radio
station or TV channel because it's lame”

1007
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,040
and now he's a cooking show celebrity.

1008
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,040
It's my second passion,
I simply enjoy it.

1009
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:57,840
And I've been cooking
since I was 12. It's my forte.

1010
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:01,320
Above all I am a rapper,
but at home I am just an amateur chef.

1011
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:03,520
- Will you serve it?
- We'll start with the soup,

1012
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,880
- the guest first of course.
- This is Tom?

1013
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,080
Tom Kha? I mean "Peter Jum".

1014
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:11,760
Awesome.

1015
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:18,440
Włodi who once came to
me to listen to his next album.

1016
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:23,080
He said he was going to a meeting
with some stylists. What stylists?

1017
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:29,040
What do you mean? Autumn/winter
collection, why are you surprised?

1018
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:33,440
For them it is just as important as
playing concerts and music.

1019
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,320
I even had the impression
that it's more important.

1020
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:40,840
And if you don't have enough
resistance against this situation,

1021
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:46,200
you can get caught up in
the monetization of your own personality.

1022
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,720
Your talent, your skills.

1023
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,760
And then money becomes
much more important

1024
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,720
than relationships, friends,
acquaintances, values.

1025
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:57,200
<i>Evenement and street rap
Are you up for it Vienio?</i>

1026
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,280
<i>Of course
What's said is done</i>

1027
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:02,960
<i>Evenement and street rap
Are you up for it Włodi</i>

1028
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:04,640
<i>Of course! What's said is done</i>

1029
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:08,720
<i>With a cry of victory
“Ave!” On the concrete turf</i>

1030
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:10,240
<i>Warsaw's behind me</i>

1031
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:12,960
<i>The first step has been made
now I'm running</i>

1032
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,800
<i>The traces are gone and I act cunningly</i>

1033
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:19,920
<i>We go to battle on our own rules
We're not unfamiliar to pain</i>

1034
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:24,120
<i>The king is dead, long live the king
Failure is out of the question</i>

1035
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:27,000
<i>Going to our doom, we don't care</i>

1036
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:32,360
<i>I will bring immortal glory to my crew
Like the heads of those we hate</i>

1037
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,200
<i>We'll celebrate the taste
of victory with a joint</i>

1038
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,960
<i>Then we'll mock the losers</i>

1039
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:42,840
Each of us still has something to do
with music and it seems to me that,

1040
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:48,520
this is the basis of our existence.

1041
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:56,480
You can find happiness
in your life by doing what you love.

1042
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,800
It'll be ok kid, it'll be ok.

1043
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:04,880
Hemp Gru Eter - Amsterdam 2018

1044
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:07,880
Let's do it!

1045
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:12,320
I always wanted to do something
on my own, the boys knew it,

1046
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:15,480
and I supported them with their verses.

1047
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:20,600
And together we created a group,
but Molesta is Vienio and Włodi.

1048
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,600
<i>Promotion specialists
the best rap experts</i>

1049
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,400
<i>Super advisers
on matters of the first stage</i>

1050
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,760
<i>Your theories are funny to me</i>

1051
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,800
<i>Because you treat our
culture like teen euphoria</i>

1052
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,200
<i>They're not your stories
so piss off</i>

1053
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:43,720
<i>I reminisce half a year back</i>

1054
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:47,200
<i>It is a thing about unfulfilled
promises, Crossed boundaries</i>

1055
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:50,000
<i>You're a person with two faces</i>

1056
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,800
<i>What, what, what? Your work is a joke</i>

1057
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,640
<i>You treat my talent
as a way to get rich</i>

1058
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,800
Compromises are getting
more and more difficult,

1059
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:03,480
and we had always
resolved matters quickly.

1060
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:08,520
Compromises were an obstacle, the only
way out was to have a break for a while.

1061
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:11,600
And have some freedom
to do what we really wanted,

1062
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,320
to see who is who in Molesta.

1063
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,080
And everyone chose their path.

1064
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,800
I can decide for myself.
I don't have 3 guys with me

1065
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:21,600
who are trying to tell me:

1066
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,160
“maybe stand 10 cm to the left,
or maybe to the right,

1067
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,640
or maybe you should turn
left and right or turn around,

1068
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:30,080
maybe wear a pink tracksuit
instead of a red one” etc.

1069
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:34,280
I don't owe anyone anything.
It seemed good to me that it was over.

1070
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:38,160
After every breakup there's
always a new beginning.

1071
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,720
And that's how it is.

1072
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:47,400
"For my beloved Justyna".

1073
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:54,456
If you've made it to the red carpet backdrop,
you need to pose for photos.

1074
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:56,080
Otherwise this backdrop would be wasted.

1075
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,280
<i>High-five, I'm off to smoke.</i>

1076
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:00,560
<i>Hah, this is something new.</i>

1077
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:04,120
Everyone's doing solo things,

1078
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:09,680
so there's no friendliness here,
no energy.

1079
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:11,760
We are honest with each other.

1080
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:15,680
I'm not going to force any relations.

1081
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:17,480
Something burned out,
something ended,

1082
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:19,680
there was no energy.
I don't know what to call it.

1083
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:22,000
It had to happen.

1084
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:25,240
Nothing lasts forever.

1085
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:26,640
It often turned out that

1086
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,600
what I believed in so blindly
didn't really exist.

1087
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,680
A lot of things have changed,
but they have also cleared up,

1088
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:36,120
I also saw many
friends who came and left.

1089
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:40,360
There was also a lot of chaos
associated with some values.

1090
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:43,520
I saw these how
these values started eroding.

1091
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:46,360
Then suddenly we realised
that the world is different

1092
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:49,240
than the way we imagined it
in our young heads.

1093
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,960
This is perfectly described
by Włodi's verse that

1094
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,400
"Mother told you not to believe
in your friends so much

1095
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,800
because an empty desk is all
that's left in the end".

1096
01:03:56,880 --> 01:04:00,000
People leave and all that's
left is an empty desk.

1097
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,400
Eventually you have less
things in common and it's hard to find

1098
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:08,120
that connection between each other.

1099
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:11,520
Music was something that connected us,

1100
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,520
we understood each other
thanks to music.

1101
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:20,200
So when that started disappearing,
our connection started eroding too.

1102
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:23,960
We were just friends from
the neighbourhood. That's it.

1103
01:04:28,160 --> 01:04:30,320
<i>After falling I always get up</i>

1104
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,240
<i>Gather my people and keep playing</i>

1105
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:38,560
Don't drag it on so long, you want to
have a fucking emotional shot or what?

1106
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:40,800
<i>After falling I always get up</i>

1107
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:43,400
<i>Gather my people and keep playing</i>

1108
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,840
<i>Overcome each obstacle</i>

1109
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,600
<i>Live my own life and fuck the trends</i>

1110
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,000
<i>One of the paths I have chosen</i>

1111
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:53,760
<i>Is hip-hop with its arsenal</i>

1112
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,000
<i>And I don't know who I've become</i>

1113
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:58,880
<i>Because now I create
I used to only listen</i>

1114
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:02,280
<i>And I will be proud of it
Because that's all I can count on</i>

1115
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:04,160
<i>The only thing I can succeed in</i>

1116
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,640
<i>Immerse yourself
in the smoke for a moment</i>

1117
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:08,800
<i>Because what you hear is rap shit</i>

1118
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:12,240
<i>You don't want it? Tough luck
If you do, expect hard work</i>

1119
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,520
<i>I will definitely manage without you</i>

1120
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,000
<i>Even closed up
with just water and bread</i>

1121
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:19,520
<i>I will write about life, joy and anger</i>

1122
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:22,040
<i>Don't try to stop me
from reaching my goal</i>

1123
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,400
<i>There were many like you here before</i>

1124
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:27,120
<i>Mocking me behind my back
calling me their friend</i>

1125
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,880
<i>Do you know who I am? Mystical Molesta</i>

1126
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,480
<i>My talent is inherited
simple and logical lyrics</i>

1127
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:34,960
<i>Fast as a spaceship</i>

1128
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,560
<i>You won't find any lies in these words</i>

1129
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:40,200
<i>In these written words there's no lies</i>

1130
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,760
<i>Though some of it might be offensive</i>

1131
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,360
<i>But I can't communicate any other way.</i>

1132
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,000
<i>I would have to have been
brought up somewhere else</i>

1133
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,240
<i>Under no circumstances
do I want to provoke</i>

1134
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:53,120
<i>But I can't control my talk</i>

1135
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,680
<i>I can't hide from the court</i>

1136
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:57,760
Yeah.

1137
01:05:58,600 --> 01:05:59,960
<i>Yeah, and what now?</i>

1138
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,200
<i>After falling I always get up</i>

1139
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:05,880
<i>Gather my people and keep playing</i>

1140
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:08,520
<i>Overcome every obstacle</i>

1141
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,240
<i>Live your own life and fuck the trends</i>

1142
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:13,720
<i>After falling I always get up</i>

1143
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:16,240
<i>Gather people and keep playing</i>

1144
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:18,800
<i>Overcome every obstacle</i>

1145
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,560
<i>Live my own life and fuck the trends</i>

1146
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:23,920
<i>The motherfuckin' media is on my back</i>

1147
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,400
<i>Their knowledge of hip-hop
is pure comedy</i>

1148
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:29,160
<i>Articles, programs –
their content is a tragedy</i>

1149
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:31,720
<i>Because everyone thinks
they're better than you</i>

1150
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:35,040
<i>Włodi is vigilant
and sniffs out deceptions</i>

1151
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:36,720
<i>Fuck off from my poems</i>

1152
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:37,760
<i>Though the number of MCs...</i>

1153
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:40,760
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO
HELPED US CREATE MUSIC AND GROW,

1154
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:44,560
AND MOST OF ALL TO THE FANS WHO HAVE
BEEN WITH US ALL THESE YEARS.THANK YOU!

1155
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:47,000
<i>This is the perfect opportunity</i>

1156
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,680
<i>For the battle to finally take plac,</i>

1157
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:52,520
<i>Remember Włodi and Klima are one</i>

1158
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:54,880
<i>After falling I always get up</i>

1159
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,520
<i>Gather my people and keep playing</i>

1160
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:00,080
<i>Overcome every obstacle</i>

1161
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,880
<i>Live my own life and fuck the trends</i>

1162
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:05,280
<i>After falling I always get up</i>

1163
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:07,840
<i>Gather my strength and keep playing</i>

1164
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,520
<i>Overcome each obstacle</i>

1165
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:13,640
<i>Live my own life and fuck the trends...</i>



